Data Acquisition Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Edinburgh

Data Acquisition
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Acquisition skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Feb 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	56	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition	8	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh	1.32%	-	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.48%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	6	0	0
10^th Percentile	£694	-	-
25^th Percentile	£862	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£881	-	-
75^th Percentile	£900	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Scotland median daily rate	£881	£356	-
% change year-on-year	+147.47%	-	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	£51.63	-	-
25^th Percentile	£52.19	-	-
Median hourly rate	£53.75	-	-
75^th Percentile	£54.69	-	-
90^th Percentile	£54.88	-	-
Scotland median hourly rate	£53.75	-	-

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Acquisition falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	541	570	803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh	89.42%	93.90%	90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	265	309	487
10^th Percentile	£193	£193	£225
25^th Percentile	£406	£375	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£450	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+5.56%	-5.26%	-
75^th Percentile	£588	£538	£550
90^th Percentile	£675	£638	£639
Scotland median daily rate	£450	£450	£480
% change year-on-year	-	-6.25%	+1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted	27	27	25
10^th Percentile	£17.23	£20.30	£13.26
25^th Percentile	£17.87	£21.02	£16.25
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£23.59	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+69.56%	-32.60%	+64.63%
75^th Percentile	£72.00	£24.18	£60.75
90^th Percentile	£81.24	£30.74	-
Scotland median hourly rate	£20.00	£23.59	£19.50
% change year-on-year	-15.22%	+20.97%	+12.54%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Acquisition relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Acquisition.

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in Edinburgh

Data Acquisition
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 10 February 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Acquisition also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region with a requirement for Data Acquisition.

1	5 (62.50%)	Asset Management
1	5 (62.50%)	AVEVA
1	5 (62.50%)	Data Management
1	5 (62.50%)	Operational Acceptance Testing
1	5 (62.50%)	Performance Improvement
2	3 (37.50%)	Apache Airflow
2	3 (37.50%)	Apache Hive
2	3 (37.50%)	Apache Spark
2	3 (37.50%)	Big Data
2	3 (37.50%)	CI/CD
2	3 (37.50%)	Containerisation
2	3 (37.50%)	Customer Service
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Engineering
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Governance
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Ingestion

2	3 (37.50%)	Data Pipeline
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Quality
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Science
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Warehouse
2	3 (37.50%)	DataOps
2	3 (37.50%)	Degree
2	3 (37.50%)	ETL
2	3 (37.50%)	Fault Analysis
2	3 (37.50%)	IBM
2	3 (37.50%)	IBM Certification
2	3 (37.50%)	Java
2	3 (37.50%)	Master's Degree
2	3 (37.50%)	NoSQL
2	3 (37.50%)	Python
2	3 (37.50%)	Security Cleared

Data Acquisition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1	3 (37.50%)	Apache Airflow
1	3 (37.50%)	Apache Spark

Database & Business Intelligence
1	3 (37.50%)	Apache Hive
1	3 (37.50%)	Big Data
1	3 (37.50%)	Data Warehouse
1	3 (37.50%)	NoSQL

Job Titles
1	3 (37.50%)	Architect
1	3 (37.50%)	Data Engineer

Miscellaneous
1	5 (62.50%)	Operational Technology
1	5 (62.50%)	SCADA

Processes & Methodologies
1	5 (62.50%)	Asset Management
1	5 (62.50%)	Data Management
1	5 (62.50%)	Operational Acceptance Testing
1	5 (62.50%)	Performance Improvement
2	3 (37.50%)	CI/CD
2	3 (37.50%)	Containerisation
2	3 (37.50%)	Customer Service
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Engineering
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Governance
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Ingestion
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Pipeline
2	3 (37.50%)	Data Science
2	3 (37.50%)	DataOps
2	3 (37.50%)	ETL
2	3 (37.50%)	Fault Analysis
2	3 (37.50%)	Workflow
3	2 (25.00%)	Architectural Design
3	2 (25.00%)	Batch Processing
3	2 (25.00%)	Predictive Modelling
3	2 (25.00%)	Problem-Solving

Programming Languages
1	3 (37.50%)	Java
1	3 (37.50%)	Python
1	3 (37.50%)	SQL

Qualifications
1	3 (37.50%)	Degree
1	3 (37.50%)	IBM Certification
1	3 (37.50%)	Master's Degree
1	3 (37.50%)	Security Cleared
2	2 (25.00%)	SC Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	3 (37.50%)	Data Quality
1	3 (37.50%)	SLA

Vendors
1	5 (62.50%)	AVEVA
2	3 (37.50%)	IBM
3	2 (25.00%)	Microsoft

Data AcquisitionScotland > Edinburgh

All Process & Methodology SkillsEdinburgh

Data AcquisitionJob Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Data AcquisitionDaily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Data AcquisitionDaily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Data AcquisitionTop 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

Data AcquisitionCo-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category